So...2mm?

Actually yes, 2mm.  I'm looking soon to a world I'll have to give up the hobby room in to have a bedroom for another child.  My wife is doing the best she can supporting a hobby she find infantile, but it's greater DC-space remains a premium, and with as much as I get to the hobby (see blog title if there's any confusion) I will have to reduce.

While my eyes are good, I'm going small.  How Small.  Well, below please find my Late Roman Archers, my Sassanid Cataphracts, a Sassanid Elephant, and a Beer (the Tradition from DCBrau). Drink the last, paint the first three.

So, yeah, tiny.

At the least these are armies I can paint, base, and store in a limited space.  You should see these guys based on 1" x 1/2" to 1" x 1" bases shortly, but deeds not words.

In case you are interested, there's a good guide here. Especially the article on Atomic DBA that I'm using as the foundation.  I could do this large, with bases with twelve of these little castings each, but I'm going easy.  I could also do generic armies, instead I'm going to be stubborn with separate armies for each of the ones in my little "7th Century Collapse (or Rise depending on your point of view) Campaign". Like my aspirations for DBAesque Moderns, color is a major theme (little byzantine humor there).

Current Figures
  Byzantines - Red
  Sassanids - Purple
  Arab Conquest - Green

Phase II
  Visigoths - Blue
  Avars & Bulgars - Orange (Both, options, one army)
  Lombards - Black
  Khazar - White
  Lakhamids - Yellow

Still looking at some other options - Slavs, Ostrogoth, and Moors are shortlisted, but before I plan too much let me at least basecoat what I have.  I think this range would be perfect for Horse and Musket, but, you know, one project at a time.  More the pity there's only one source for these figs.  Irregular has a mixed rep-everyone always says they "paint up well", but can be a little rough.  Their selection is unequaled though, and looking at their smaller scales, whether these or the Dark Dwarf 6mm army I bought 16 years ago, there's few, if any better.

I wanted to make one last comment, in case you are still reading - I tried to buy some metal bases from the brick and mortar around the corner.  Apparently they can't get them for me.  When did we stop being able to get metal bases...but ok. I am going to go back to my porch and yell at kids in my yard, pining for the days when hobby shops were plentiful and I could afford Games Workshops models.